creative commons licensed ( BY-NC-ND ) flickr photo shared by clement127 One of the things we use a lot is what I’ll call templated submissions using Gravity Forms. It’s a solid performer across a variety of activities, disciplines, and instructor technology comfort levels. Costs/Benefits The content is guided/scaffolded so you get consistently constructed products (core […]
One of the things I love about my little community of people is the in-process sharing1 of work. Alan is a master of this and he puts in serious work.2 In an attempt to give a little bit of energy back I present you a very rough version of the LPC3 SPLOT Story Brancher. To […]
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Gravity Forms makes my list of Non-Programistan tools. I haven’t seen quite enough posts celebrating the fact that Gravity Forms can do magic. The key feature at the moment that is kind of blowing my mind is the ability to use modifiers on the submissions fields— the ability to have the label (what the user […]
Turns out this won’t work for what I originally planned but the pattern is sound. You can see the form here and examples of the form submissions here. You’ll need Gravity Forms (pay but well worth it) and Google Maps for WordPress but the idea should work for all kinds things. The original goal was […]
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I’m messing around with a reservation system that meshes with the Events Calendar Pro calendar system we use. We’re not trying to get people to pay for anything and we have a few other simple things that we want to do that makes a lot of the paid plugins for reservations messy. One of the […]
This is a minor tweak if you’re using Gravity Forms with the Advanced Post Creation Plugin. Not much of a post but it never hurts to have more documentation out there. If you’re not using the Advanced Post Creation plugin, then this snippet works perfectly. If you are using it, the dropdown will be right […]
June 9th (3:00 PM EDT) Round One – The basics of Gravity Forms See examples of how Gravity Forms is used for a variety of projects; get an overview of Gravity Forms; creating a simple post. June 16th (3:00 PM EDT) Round Two – A bit of Gravity Forms flare Creating more sophisticated form posts […]
Gravity Forms does all kinds of nice things with merge fields. These mail-merge-like chunks make it really easy to create content, send custom messages, or redirect people using the data submitted via forms. When your plain data doesn’t do what you need, there are a number of useful built in modifiers. I’ve mainly used the […]
Origin Story We have someone who wants to allow people to enter various numbers of items in a particular pattern. We want to keep this as easy as possible and they wanted to avoid having to repeatedly hit submit. First Pass – Gravity Forms Repeater Field I initially thought we could do this in Gravity […]
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Based on a conversation I had on Tuesday there appeared to be a need to generate a tag cloud1 from Gravity Forms responses. I didn’t see any immediate solutions after browsing for plugins. Granted, I could have jerry rigged something by creating posts and doing something weird where I added the words as tags . […]
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